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Annual report
An annual report is a company's yearly account of its business, required by law in many jurisdictions, such as the SEC's Form 10-K in the United States.
Annual Reviews (publisher)
Annual Reviews: American nonprofit scholarly publisher founded 1932 by J. Murray Luck, publishing invited review journals across 51 disciplines; pioneered Subscribe to Open, converting all 2023-2025 volumes to open access.
Annuit cœptis
Annuit cœptis is a Latin motto meaning "Providence has favored our undertakings," inscribed above the Eye of Providence on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States.
Annuity
An annuity is a series of equal payments made at fixed intervals, valued by discounting each payment to the present at a stated interest rate.
Annulment
Annulment, or nullity, is a court declaration that a marriage or other legal act was never valid, unlike divorce which ends a valid marriage; covers void and voidable grounds, financial effects, religious annulment, and EU and arbitration uses.
Annulment in the Philippines
Annulment in the Philippines is a court process dissolving defective valid marriages, distinct from nullity; the Family Code allows only annulment and legal separation since the Philippines and Vatican City permit no absolute divorce.
Annunciation
The Annunciation, or Annunciation to Mary, is the Christian feast kept on 25 March, commemorating Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary in Nazareth that she would bear Jesus.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg, born 1979, is a British journalist and politician who served as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.
Annus horribilis
Annus horribilis, Latin for "horrible year", a formal phrase for a year of disaster, popularized by Queen Elizabeth II's 24 November 1992 Guildhall speech about the Windsor Castle fire and royal separations, modelled on annus mirabilis.
Annus mirabilis
Annus mirabilis, plural anni mirabiles, is Latin for "remarkable year", used in English for a year of wonders or disasters; it entered English through John Dryden's 1667 poem about 1666.
Annwn
Annwn (Annwfn), the otherworld of Welsh mythology: a realm of feasting, youth, and plenty ruled by Arawn in the Mabinogi, raided by Arthur in Preiddeu Annwfn; not a land of the dead, despite medieval identification with Hell.
Anocracy
Anocracy: a mixed regime blending democratic and autocratic features, defined in Polity data as scores -5 to +5; associated with elevated civil war risk, though Vreeland (2008) disputes that link.
Anointing
Anointing is the ritual application of oil, fat, or perfumed chrism to a person or object as a religious act, marking elevation, consecration, or healing.
Anointing of Jesus
The anointing of Jesus is a Gospel episode in which a woman pours expensive nard oil over Jesus, an act he interprets as preparation for his burial.
Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church
Anointing of the Sick, formerly called Extreme Unction, is one of the seven Catholic sacraments, administered by a priest to the dangerously ill with blessed oil.
Anomaly Capital Management
Anomaly Capital Management is a New York-based hedge fund founded in October 2019 by Ben Jacobs, the former co-CIO of Viking Global Investors, running a concentrated long/short equity strategy.
Anomie
Anomie (Greek anomia, normlessness): sociological concept for a society whose norms lose regulatory power. Introduced by Durkheim (1893, Suicide 1897); reformulated by Merton (1938) as a goals-means gap; measured today by the Perception of Anomie Scale.
Anonymity
Anonymity is the condition of being unidentifiable in a context, spanning technical and social anonymity. Key facts: deindividuation research, SIDE model, online disinhibition, cyber aggression meta-analyses, research ethics, and anonymity networks.
Anonymous (hacker group)
Anonymous is a decentralized hacktivist collective originating on 4chan in 2003, known for Project Chanology, Operation Payback, Arab Spring operations, the Guy Fawkes mask, and its legacy in later hacktivist groups.
Anoop Jacob
Anoop Jacob is an Indian politician of the Kerala Congress (Jacob) who serves as a Kerala minister for Food, Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs, and Legal Metrology.
Anoop N Menon
Anoop N Menon, who publishes as Anoop N, is an Indian venture capital investor who joined Chiratae Ventures as Principal in 2021 and became Partner in August 2026, after co-leading Accenture Ventures in India.
Anoop Pradhan
Anoop Pradhan, also listed as Anoop Pradhan Valmiki, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been the Lok Sabha member for Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, since 2024.
Anoushka Vaswani
Anoushka Vaswani is a Partner, Growth at Lightspeed Venture Partners, investing in fintech, enterprise software, and infrastructure, with board seats at Fireworks AI, Semgrep, and 1Password.
Anouvong
Anouvong, also Chao Anou, was king of Vientiane, a Lao vassal state of Siam, from 1805 to 1828; his failed 1827 rebellion ended in the kingdom's destruction.
Anqi Sheng
Anqi Sheng (安期生) is a legendary Chinese immortal of the Qin and Han era, said to be a thousand-year-old medicine seller on the Shandong coast.
Anra scarab
Anra scarabs are design scarabs of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period whose bases always include the hieroglyphs n and r, produced mainly in Canaan around 1650 to 1530 BC.
Ansa Biotechnologies
Ansa Biotechnologies is a DNA synthesis company in Emeryville, California, founded in 2018 by Daniel Lin-Arlow and Sebastian Palluk, using enzymatic synthesis rather than chemical methods.
Ansar
The Ansar (الأنصار) were the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi who overthrew Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan in 1885 and later became the base of the Umma Party.
Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)
Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (أنصار الشريعة), a Salafist jihadist group founded in Benghazi in early 2012, differed from same-named groups in Tunisia and Yemen by its Rafallah al-Sahati origins, blame for the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack it denied, UN and US terror listings, and May 2017 dissolution.
Ansar Shaikh
Ansar Shaikh (Shaikh Ansar Ahamad), IAS officer of the 2016 West Bengal cadre who cleared UPSC CSE at 21 with AIR 361 on his first attempt, becoming India's youngest IAS officer; currently ADM, Malda.